Cookware
To achieve optimum cooking performance, use heavy gauge, flat, smooth bottom cookpots that conform to the diameter of the solid or radiant element (no more than one inch overhang). Propercookpots will minimize cooking times, use less electricity, cook food more evenly and require less water or oil.
Cookpots with thin, uneven bottoms do not adequately conduct heat from the solid or radiant element to the food in the cookpots which results in hot spots, burned or
underdone food. Using badcookpots also requires more water, time, and energy to cook food.
Selecting Proper Cookware
•Select heavy gauge cookpots. Usually heavy gauge cookpots will not change shape when heated.
•Usecookpots with flat, smooth bottoms. The twowaystodetermineif cookpots have a flat, smooth bottomare the rulertest and the cookingtest.
Ruler Test:
1.Place the edge of ruler across the bottom of the pot.
3.No light should be visible under t he ruler.
Cooking Test:
1.Put 1 inch of water into the cookpot.
2.Place cookpot on the element. Turn control to the HI setting.
3. Observe the bubble formation to determine the heat distribution. If the
bubbles are uniform across the cookpot, the cookpot will perform satisfac- torily. Ifthe bubbles are not uniform, the bubbles will indicate the hot spots.
•Match the size of the cookpot to the size of the element. Ideally, the cookpot will be the same size or slightly larger.
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